Wednesday 12 December 2012 11.42 EST
First published on Wednesday 12 December 2012 11.42 EST

Ravi Shankar, who has died at the age of 92, was a major influence on musicians from the west for over 60 years. The Guardian began to review his concerts from the mid-1950s onwards, charting the effect of the new sounds on British audiences.

An early review from October 1958 noted the audience's response to the music was similar to that of jazz performance, while the Leeds Festival of that year saw Shankar sharing the bill with violinist Yehudi Menuhin.

The Guardian, 11 October 1958. Click to read the full review

A decade later and jazz fans and "young people who looked as if they liked pop" were starting to appear at his concerts.

The Guardian, 20 June 1966. Click to read the full review

To help western ears understand the music, the Observer printed a handy guide to 'the Delhi sound!'. By 1968, Shankar was well and truly established as a hippie idol, as Geoffrey Moorhouse wrote on 19 November 1968.

However, by 1971 he was performing a new sitar concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra.